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    • eimantasks
      eimantasks last edited by

      I have just installed Opera on Ubuntu 20.04 and I cannot watch Twitch streams, it just throws an error. While it plays YouTube videos just fine, but cannot play live strems also.

      c3d191c9-ec2f-4474-9427-8bf4c1f007da-image.png on Youtube live stream

      and Twitch live stream
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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Did you download the snap package? Or the .deb file? The snap package runs all the codecs for video playing perfectly on Linux (not widevine for Netflix though) if it was the .deb file you might run into problems

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        • eimantasks
          eimantasks @Guest last edited by

          @U1traVio1et oooh that's how it is.. Yes, I used .deb file. So, codec licensing issues I suppose? I did try to use Snap version and it works fine indeed, I will keep using that then, thanks!

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @eimantasks last edited by

            @eimantasks None of the possible solutions given in the several other topics about the same problem helped?

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            • A Former User
              A Former User @eimantasks last edited by

              @eimantasks said in Opera won't play Twitch streams:

              @U1traVio1et oooh that's how it is.. Yes, I used .deb file. So, codec licensing issues I suppose? I did try to use Snap version and it works fine indeed, I will keep using that then, thanks!

              No worries, nothing to do with licensing, I think it's because everything to make the browser work is in the snap package, the .deb file uses other stuff from different sources on your system and that's where opera trips up

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              • eimantasks
                eimantasks @Guest last edited by

                @U1traVio1et understood! well, I have nothing against snaps and it works perfectly now, so I will just keep using that!

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                • eimantasks
                  eimantasks @leocg last edited by

                  @leocg I found a topic with some libraries, and links to those libraries on github, I tried that solution but those libraries might be outdated or I did something wrong, it didn't work.
                  https://forums.opera.com/topic/33466/videos-in-html5-will-not-work/8
                  also tried to follow
                  https://forums.opera.com/topic/35411/cannot-play-videos-in-website/8
                  which only made me more confused.
                  But simply using Snap version solves it.

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                    @U1traVio1et Yes, it has to do with licensing. See https://forums.opera.com/post/150324

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User @leocg last edited by

                      @leocg thanks for the info

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